At 11:42 AM -0800 1/17/2002, Philip Usher wrote: >if you'll bear with me, I'd like to pursue the matter of visual effects in >revolution. Using the following on a mac G3 266: > > lock screen > set the filename of image "New Image 1" to pWhichFile > unlock screen with visual iris open very slow > >in Rev 1.0 the effect is as smooth as silk .... way cool > >But in Rev 1.1.1 the effect is jerky and definitely not in the realm of >elegance. The same is true whether using the built in effect or the QT >answer effect. > >I feel that the appearance of the jerky effects greatly detracts from the >quality of Revolution. Is there a property setting in 1.1.1 that would make >the effects as smooth as they are in 1.0?
The problem is that the QuickTime-based effects are more demanding of CPU time than the built-in effects. On slower machines, the effect may be jerky, cause weird visual artifacts, etc. (On faster machines they look fine, though. I've seen this same problem on a 240MHz G3, but not on a 400MHz G4, just for example.) There will be a new property, the dontUseQTEffects, in 1.1.1b2. If you set this property to true, the built-in effect routines will always be used, fixing this problem for slower machines. -- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! _______________________________________________ improve-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/improve-revolution
